Picnic at Hanging Rock

1979 • 107 minutes
4.5
28 reviews
92%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all- female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

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4.5
28 reviews
Don Sweezy
July 23, 2015
Interesting, but does not each a satisfactory conclusion.
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Nathaniel Avoures
June 15, 2022
Historical quasi horror psychological mystery masterpiece
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August 6, 2022
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